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Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

Cornel West

Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
When you place a high value on truth, you have to think for yourself.
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Think Thinking Value Yourself
Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.
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Culture Hip Hop Rap
There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.
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Differences Fundamentals Organization
Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.
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Jazz Music Need
Martin Luther King’s legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.
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Brick Kings Legacy Mortar
I don’t draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can’t stand white supremacy. I can’t stand male supremacy. I can’t stand imperial subjugation. I can’t stand homophobia.
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People Sight White
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it’s ethically driven.
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Bitterness Driven Soul
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
He who learns death unlearns slavery.
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Slavery Thrive Unlearn
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
Hey, you got something going here. I think we’ve got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
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Hey People Thinking
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism

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